PSYC 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5,7: Past Life Regression, Myoclonus, Lucid Dream

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1150
• Professor: Cramer

Document Summary

A strange experience of being unable to move just after falling asleep or immediately upon awakening. Caused by a disruption in the sleep cycle and is often associated with anxiety or even terror, feeling of vibrations, humming noises, and the eerie sense of menacing figures close to or on top of the immobile person. Consciousness -our subjective experience of the world and ourselves. Circadian rhythm- cyclical changes that occur on a roughly 24hr basis in many of our biological processes (ex. hormone release, brain waves, body temp and drowsiness) The result of a disruption of circadian rhythm is jet lag. Biological clock - term for the suprachiasmatic nucleus (scn) in the hypothalamus that"s responsible for controlling our levels of alertness. In 1951, a discovery in nathaniel kleitman"s sleep lab. Eugene aserinsky, kleitman"s grad student, monitored his son"s eye movements and brain waves while he slept.